1 // Please use this as a reference and compile your own answer with its help // Best regards // // Honest Abe // 1. What measures for disease prevention that were used historically should be used today? Why do you think some were discarded as preventive measures? 2. What is the difference between disease and illness? 1) During the early 1800s those that lived in the urban cities would probably have chosen what was termed conventional medicine for their health care. During that time most of the medical practice by physicians was based on what was called a theory of Four Humors. Humors were considered the four main illnesses that people suffered from they were hot/fever, cold/chills, acid and alkaline. The health journals or papers of those days that physicians wrote were mainly discussion of various theories and ideas about nature. These were often based on precedent instead of scientific evidence. This precedent was accepted as truth until another theory or circumstance proved otherwise (WDM, 2009). Midwives were enlisted to care for prenatal, pregnant, and postnatal women in the 1840s. Many were perceived the equivalent of a physician at that time. Though the physicians would not officially recognize the Midwives and allow them to draw a salary for their services. As the doctors in that day placed their hands or medical equipment within a woman’s body, they did not comprehend that her health was being compromised. Today the American Medical Assoc. does recognize this fact and that an

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